Inarguably one of the most merciless and destructive battles throughout history. Resulting in nearly two million total ...
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009. Pp xxii, 896. Illus., maps,table, notes, biblio., index. $39.95. ISBN: 0700616640 The second volume of the "Stalingrad ...
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On September 13, 1942, the skies over Stalingrad had been in chaos for over a year. Suddenly, a lone Yak-1 fighter, marked ...
Most Western authors writing about contemporary Russian politics typically tend to present a story with an obvious ideological bias: Pro-Washington and anti-Kremlin, usually emphasizing how President ...
The city of Stalingrad was in ruins as the Russian winter of 1942-43 took hold. For nearly three months it had been the battleground in which the Red Army had dug in to prevent the advance of the ...
Knorring/RIA Novosti Early in the morning of November 19, 1942, thousands of Soviet cannons shelled the positions of the Nazis, and the Soviet army started a decisive attack. Zelma/RIA Novosti Several ...
The Russian city of Volgograd could soon be answering to its old and - to many people - much more familiar name of Stalingrad. The regional authorities in the city, site of the 1942-3 battle, are keen ...
Russia's foreign-language Oscar entry and first Imax 3D release is big, loud, full of explosions and awash in stereotypes. The steamroller that is Fyodor Bondarchuk’s 3D extravaganza “Stalingrad,” ...